Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 532

A human head on a pig's body

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There were no butterflies on Butterfly Island, nor was there any island in sight.

Fog shrouded everything. The only place free of it was that little town.

Qin Manjiang walked into the fog. White stretched all around him, and he could hear nothing but his own breathing.

Humans were visual creatures. Put simply, places their eyes could make out gave them a greater sense of security.

So whether faced with darkness or thick fog, people instinctively shied away.

All the more so in a place where they knew Vengeful Ghosts existed.

From the moment they set foot on the island, they had been looking for a way out of the fog. And just like that, they had been all but led into the town.

A place unshrouded by fog, with people living in it, made a very suitable setting for a ghost story to unfold.

Yet after last night and his cursory inspection that morning, he had begun to pick up on a few clues.

As a player, he had to pay attention not only to the requirements of this round of the Ghost Story Game, but also to every detail concerning the game.

For instance... this ghost story was called Butterfly Island, not Butterfly Town.

And that was indeed the case. Apart from leaving behind a corpse mutilated beyond recognition and causing the doctor, Yan Xiao, to lose control of his emotions and disappear, they had gained no clues in town.

They had only reached one dubious conclusion-the town was very likely a ghost's dream.

This was Challenge Mode. Qin Manjiang had no way of knowing what the group wiped out last time had done, but he had heard that even the former Chief Player had met his end here.

Rather than believing that finding a path to survival

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